Lines in Triangles Triangle Centers Midsegments & Midpoints Vocabulary Random

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What is a median
A line from a vertex to a midpoint on the opposite side.

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What is centroid
Triangle center formed by medians

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What is a midpoint
A point in the middle of a segment

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What is vertex
This is another term for angle.

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What is bisector
Midpoint is to segment as ________ is to angle

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What is an angle bisector
A line that splits an angle in two

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What is incenter
A triangle center formed by angle bisectors

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What is midsegment
A segment that joins two midpoints

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What is concurrency
A point of intersection for three or more lines

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What is 180 degrees
What the angles of a triangle sum to

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What is an altitude
A perpendicular line from a vertex to the opposite side

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What is orthocenter
A center formed by the intersection of altitudes

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What is parallel
A midsegment is _____________ to the third side

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What is (a triangle) center
Where interior lines intersect in a triangle

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What is acute, right and obtuse
The three types of triangles based on angle measure

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What is a perpendicular bisector
A line that bisects another line at a right angle

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What is circumcenter
A triangle center formed by the concurrency of perpendicular bisectors

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What is half
A midsegment is _______ the length of the third side

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What is concurrent
Three or more lines that intersect at a point are called this

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What is orthocenter
This center can be located inside, outside or on a triangle

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What is median
It can help to think of this line as "the middle"

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What is centroid
It can help to think of this triangle center as..."the center"

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What is/are (similar) triangles
Joining three midsegments of a triangle forms this

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What is equidistant
A term meaning equal in distance

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